"I went to both jr. high and high school with her."
I am very impressed. I love her. Is she as sweet and nice as she still seems to be?
I saw her on Robert Schuller's show recently (my mom in law never misses that) and she said her greatest show biz moment was when she was able to "buy her parents a house".
Basically, yes. But she was emotionally unprepared to handle fame and the pressures of show business, and that's why she took to drinking for awhile, IMO. She's still sweet and innocent on the inside, but she seems brittle and shell-shocked on the outside (to me, anyway). It makes me sad.